Apparel-corset.



` D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLIUATION FILED 1120.12. 1911.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co.. WASHINGTON, D. cV

Patented July 9, 1912.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLIOATION FILED 11110.12, 1911.

1,032,146., Patented July 9, 1912.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Ina/remos;

COLUMNA PLANOGRAPH co\\'A5H|NGToN. n. c.

:DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

Application led December 12, 1911.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention in apparel corsets is designed as an improvement upon the corset shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States, granted to me March 9, 1909, No. 914,732. In the device of this patent7 the fabric of the corset body was continued considerably below t-he front steels, and in connection with tapering inclined straps I employed auxiliary straps lying between the tapering inclined straps and the fabric body of the corset. These auxiliary straps were connected to the lowery ends of the corset body below the steels to the tapering inclined straps, and to the skirts at the union therewith of the latter straps, all for the purpose of providing an abdominal supporting holding and flattening function.

In the device of my present invention, as in the device of said patent, I employ combined tapering inclined straps with prolongations, and continue the fabric of the corset body at the front considerably below the steels.

In my improved corset, there are long skirts, much longer than those shown in my aforesaid patent, and the lower forward ends of these skirts are connected with the aforesaid prolongations of the tapering inclined straps, and I employ inclined elastic fabric straps at their distant ends connected to the upper parts of the skirts at the union therewith of the upper parts of said prolongations and the nearer ends of these elastic fabric straps are connected to fabric prolongations secured to the lower parts of the front fabric of the corset below the steels and adjacent to fastening devices which connect these fabric parts together. These elastic fabric straps come below the bones and front steels, and outside of unstifened parts of the fabric front of the cor- Specication of Letters Patent.

laaente'd JulyQ, 1912.

serial No. 665,306.

set proper, which extends below the bones and which fabric front is loose and puckered in the normal and kout of use condition of the elastic straps. The location of these elastic straps combined ywith the possible elongation of the front of the corset, from a loose to a taut condition, and which elongation is in the line of stretch of the elastic straps, produces an abdominal supporting and lifting function from a lower pointthan in any of my corsets heretofore, adaptlng said corsets especially for women of stout figures and of abdominal prominence.

In the drawing, Figure l is an elevation of the corset of my improvement at the front and lower portion of the corset, with one of the upper inclined straps and its prolongat-ion turned over or aside, so as to disclose the inclined elastic fabric straps beneath the same. Fig. 2 is an elevation from the under side of the corset of the lower portion at the front. Fig. 3 is a cross section at about the broken line x of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a cross section at about the broken line g/ y of Fig. 2.

a and b represent the lower front port-ions of t-he halves of an apparel corset.

c and l are abdominal gores.

a1 and 1 represent flexible fabric portions extending directly below the front and steels 3 4, the parts al and b1 being of quite appreciable length.

o1 and Z1 represent parts of the gores o, d, which extend appreciably below the boning 2.

5 are the usual fastening devices from the front steels 3 4, which connect the corset at the front and there are studs or posts 6 to receive either one of the eyelets, placed in the free ends of the tapering inclined straps t, z', which in this art, and in corsets heretofore devised by me, are of usual construction.

At 7, I have shown a fastening device for connecting the parts al 1 below the steels together, so as to overcome any separating tendency and to receive the tension of the abdominal parts.

e and f represent the skirts of the corset,

7L1 Z1 are prolongations of the tapering in-v clined straps 7L, z', which, at their lower ends, 5

are secured to the skirts e and f at their lower forward corners.

tions, and of the tapering inclined straps, are sewed to the upper parts of the skirt and .to the lower front portions of the fabric parts of the corset.

7c and Z represent the inclined elastic fabric straps of my improvement. To make these inclined elastic fabric strips parallel sided instead of tapering would not depart from my invention. They may be of elastic from end to end, or they may be provided with inelastic ends, as shown in Fig. 1, in which the light center of the part 7., represents the elastic portion, and the dark ends, the inelastic portions, and while I prefer to employ the elastic and inelastic portions, my invention is not limited in this respect. 701 and Z1 represent fabric prolongations of these elastic fabric straps. These fabric prolongations are united by lines of sewing 8, and also preferably by the rivets of the fastening device 7, to the lower ends of the flexible fabric portions al b1 below the front steels and the distant ends of the elastic fabric straps are sewed to the upper ends of the skirts e, f, and fabric body portions a, 7), at the place of union therewith of the prolongations 72,1 l of the inclined straps. The tension is through the center of these elastic fabric straps 7c' and Z between the places of attachment thereof with the skirts and lower front portions of the corset.

l have shown in Figs. 1 rand 2, by parallel shade lines and in Fig. 4t, in cross section, the puckered parts 12, in the flexible parts c1 (Z1 which come below the boning. These figures of thedrawing represent the corset out of use with these puckered parts apparent. As tension is applied in use to the elastic fabric straps 7o Z, they stretch, and these puckered parts elongate or flatten more or less, the puckering coming out in proportion to the amount of stretch of the elastic fabric straps. It will also be noticed, particularly from Fig. 1, that the lower edge of each of these elastic fabric straps 7c, Z, is in` length shorter, as between its distant line of sewed connection to the fabric body and the end of the sewed connection 8 below the front steels, than its upper edge from its distant line or sewed connection to the fabric body and its near edge to the rllhe skirts andsaid prolongations, from these lines of sewing .1.0,4 being free from one -end up to points 9,v where the distant edges of said prolonga.

center of the corset. .Consequently these fabric straps are less liable to yield; or in other words, they possess less of the yielding function at the lower and shorter part than at the upper and longer part. There is also a tendencyof the upper parts of these elastic straps with their elongations to swing outward simultaneously with the tension effect, or elongation of the parts cl Z1 of the corset, consequently space is thus produced beneath the corset to receive and apply ten- Asion to .abdominal prominence, giving, at the same time, a comfortable yielding support. A. simultaneous flattening and holding-in function is produced upon and outside said parts by the tapering inclined straps 7i., z', which are hooked yover the studs or posts 6 and the prolongations 721, 1, thereof which are pulled down for a flattening effect 'by the influence of the hose supporters 13, 14, connected at the line of sew-- ing 10 and forming substantial prolongations or continuations of the parts h1, l for the performance of its desired function.

The corset of my present invention may also be said to be an improvement upon or related to the corset shown and described in my Patent No. 946,232, granted January ll, 1910. In the device of this patent, the adjacent eiids of the elastic fabric straps are connected to the steels at their lower ends, with the object of overcoming the tendency of the lower ends of the steels to project, because of the concavity or inward curve at the waist. In the device of my pr-esent invention, the adjacent ends of the elastic fabric straps are connected to fabric prolongations appreciably below the lower ends of the steels, and which fabric prolongations are connected by fastening devices, and thus an incurved lower part of the corset at 'the front is produced below the steels, which, with the co-acting parts effect the supporting functions hereinbefore described.

l claim as my invention:

1. In an apparel corset, the combination with the fabric body halves thereof, of inclined elastic fabric straps connected at distant ends to the sides of the corset at about the forward part of the hip sections below the honing, and at their adjacent ends at the front of the corset, connected wholly below the front steels and unattached to the front steels and suitable fastening devices for connecting the corset halves below the fi'ont steels, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In an apparel corset, the combination with the fabric body halves thereof, of inclined elastic fabric straps connected at distant ends to the sides of the corset at about the forward part of the hip sections below i low the front steels on a substantially borihalves below the front steels as and for the Zontal line to the lower edge of the fabric purposes set forth. 10 body and unattaohed to the front steels, and Signed by me this 6th day of December, the upper edges of which inclined straps 1911.

at the front are curved downward to the DANIEL KOPS. said horizontal line of connection and are Witnesses:

longer than the under edges and 'suitable GEO. T. PINGKNEY,

fastening devices for connecting the corset HAROLD SERRELL.

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